| Many Forms of Madness: A Family's Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System Contributor(s): Ruether, Rosemary Radford (Author), Ruether, David (With) |
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ISBN: 0800696514 ISBN-13: 9780800696511 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Pastoral Resources - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009042225 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In telling the story of her son's thirty-year struggle with schizophrenia, Rosemary Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by idealistic reformers and an enlightened understanding that mental illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for people with mental illness if we really cared. |